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About The Role

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role - what is it we would like you to do?

The Programme Planning Manager will play a key role in supporting the Programme Manager in delivering the strategic aims and objectives of the business through development, implementation and delivery of effective planning and assurance processes across a programme of projects (typically £100-£150m in value). The Programme Planning Manager will lead and be accountable for all planning (for projects beyond the optioneering stage of development), ensuring that all performance targets are met or exceeded in a timely and consistent manner.

Your core duties will involve:

1. Lead and manage the programme's planning team(s) across multiple projects within the assigned programme to achieve desired business outcomes.
2. Lead the development of the planning team; set standards, manage, motivate, coach and mentor staff within the team. Recognise talent and assist in the development of those with high potential.
3. Lead the development and maintenance of accurate schedules throughout the project lifecycle to incorporate all components of internal and external activities and provide the key milestones to the Programme Manager.
4. Lead the management of contract programme assessment and acceptance/rejection, assessing compensation events and performing delay analysis.
5. Lead all programme schedule reporting, including reporting schedule information to the cost estimating database for Construction, ensuring that tender timescales and actual out-turn activity durations are correctly identified and classified to continuously improve the quality of planning data in the estimating database.
6. Support formal programme cost reviews to ensure alignment of the cost plan and programme, action and investigate deficiencies.
7. Support the production, and delivery to, Monthly Cost Forecasts (expected to be within 5% accuracy band month-on-month) using the cost plan, activity schedules and referencing the project/programme schedule.
8. Support the management of the Programme/Project Risk and Opportunity Register to identify and deliver efficiencies, and value the likely time consequence of each risk/opportunity.
9. Support the development and maintenance of a culture of world class health, safety and environmental standards across the Programme and its associated contractors to deliver the highest levels of health, safety and environmental performance achievable.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

1. Educated to Degree/Post-Grad level or equivalent in construction or business related field.
2. Membership of a professionally recognised organisation such as RICS.
3. Experience (typically associated with ten years' experience) as a senior planner/planner on multi-year programmes/projects with a value typically in excess of £50m in a relevant industry.
4. Experience (typically associated with 3-5 years' experience) of leading small teams of 2-3 people highly desirable.
5. Significant experience of Primavera P6.
6. Experience of planning programmes of work including multiple, interfacing, concurrent projects highly desirable.
7. Experience in planning infrastructure programmes/projects in a live operational environment desirable.
8. Sound commercial and financial awareness. Knowledge and understanding of NEC suite of contracts highly desirable.
9. Good leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate, coach, facilitate and create opportunities for learning for others.
10. Good communication skills with the ability to articulate and present complex ideas in a simple way, including to senior stakeholders.
11. Knowledge and understanding of airport environment desirable.
12. Personal resilience and the ability to manage ambiguity.

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.